Iveta Apkalna

Iveta Apkalna (born Viļuma ; born November 30, 1976 in Rēzekne , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian organist .

Life

Iveta Apkalna started taking piano lessons at the age of five, and at eight she decided to become a musician. After the end of the Soviet era in Latvia in 1990, when everything religious and therefore also playing the organ was undesirable or even associated with disadvantages, it turned out that her paternal grandfather as well as the two great-grandfathers from this line had been organists in addition to their teaching profession.

Apkalna studied piano and organ at the Latvian Music Academy Jāzeps Vītols until 1999 . She then continued her piano studies until 2000 at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and her organ studies until 2003 at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Ludger Lohmann .

Her repertoire includes works from Bach to Poulenc to contemporary music e.g. B. a Phil Glass . She is the titular organist of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie . In the 2019/2020 concert season she appeared as Artist in Residence of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Alte Oper and in the Frankfurt Radio Sendesaal, where works for organ and orchestra were also performed.

Prices

She won:

the Royal Bank Calgary International Organ Competition 2002 in London
the Bach Prize in Calgary 2002
the Tariverdiev competition in Kaliningrad 2003 .
the Echo Klassik 2005 in the category "Instrumentalist of the Year / Organ" for her CD "Himmel & Hölle"
the Echo Klassik 2008 in the category “Classical music without borders” for CD “Noema” with David Orlowsky's Klezmorim

Discography

2003: Iveta Apkalna Live. (Hera)
2004: Touch down in Riga. ( transverse stand )
2004: Heaven & Hell. (Hera)
2006: Prima Volta. (Ifo)
2007: Noema - David Orlowsky Klezmorim. (Sony)
2008: Trumpet and Organ. (Phoenix)
2009: The New Organ of the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle Duisburg. (Acousence Classics)
2011: L'Amour et la Mort. (Oehms Classics)
2012: Walter Braunfels : Organ Concerts. (Oehms Classic)
2012: Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): Missa Glagolytica. (Pentatone)
2013: Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms and Janáček. (Arthaus)
2015: Iveta Apkalna - Bach & Glass. (Oehms Classic)
2015: Iveta Apkalna plays ... (querstand)
2018: Light and Dark (First Solo Organ Recording from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Online Music Magazine : Portrait of Iveta Apkalna
^ Claudio Campagna: The mistress of the pipes ( Memento from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). On: NDR from July 27, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2019
↑ Elbphilharmonie press kit The Elbphilharmonie organ. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .
↑ On Online Musik Magazin
↑ A late light . In: FAZ from December 1, 2012, page Z5.

personal data
SURNAME	Apkalna, Iveta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Viļuma, Iveta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Latvian organist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rēzekne , Latvian SSR

[Online_Musik_Magazin_Apkalna-1] Online Music Magazine : Portrait of Iveta Apkalna

[2] Claudio Campagna: The mistress of the pipes ( Memento from July 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). On: NDR from July 27, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2019

[3] Elbphilharmonie press kit The Elbphilharmonie organ. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .

[4] On Online Musik Magazin

[5] A late light . In: FAZ from December 1, 2012, page Z5.